From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe Cold Warthe Cold Warthe unfriendly relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after the Second World War → cold war
Examples from the Corpus
the Cold War• However, the cold war is over looked.• Its front-line position in the Cold War era was of no importance by 1991.• These policies also served to institutionalise the Cold War.• Now the Cold War is over.• I do not want to suggest that Stalin had nothing to do with the origins of the cold war. 